Quote Originally Posted by markraem
3. I prefer to use telnet above SSH, since telnet clients are installed by default on WIN (still used by my employer). It is even by default installed on KNOPPIX.

4. I am very surpised that there is no telnetd standard available running on KNOPPIX.

Why not the telnet server ? I do no want to say that it has to be enabled by default, but an available telnetd executable would be nice.
A look at the packages.txt tells me that Knoppix has the following:
ii telnet-ssl 0.17.24+0.1-2 The telnet client with SSL encryption support
ii telnetd-ssl 0.17.24+0.1-2 The telnet server with SSL encryption support